The UN calls for a cease-fire on …
Years: 1948 - 1948
May
The UN calls for a cease-fire on May 20 and appoints Swedish soldier, humanitarian, and diplomat Folke, Count Bernadotte, as mediator.
A nephew of King Gustav V of Sweden, Bernadotte, commissioned in the Swedish Army in 1918, had become an official of the Boy Scout movement and during the Second World War had headed the Swedish Red Cross, securing the exchange of many prisoners of war and being credited with saving some twenty thousand inmates of German concentration camps.
His excellent reputation among all the combatant nations in Europe had led the Nazi official Heinrich Himmler to employ him to transmit a fruitless offer (April 24, 1945) that Germany surrender unconditionally to the United Kingdom and the United States but not to the Soviet Union.
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Years: 1948 - 1948
May
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Jews
- Arab nationalism
- Zionism
- ZO (Zionist Organization)
- Yemen, Mutawakkilite Kingdom of (North Yemen)
- Haganah, the (Hebrew: "The Defense")
- Egypt, Kingdom of (British Protectorate)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or Soviet Union
- Iraq, Hashemite Kingdom of
- Jewish Agency for Palestine
- Palestine, British Mandate of
- Irgun (Irgun Tsvai Leumi; Hebrew: "National Military Organization", or Etzel)
- Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
- Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", aka the Stern Gang)
- Lebanon, Republic of
- United Nations, The (U.N.)
- Czechoslovakia (restored)
- Arab League, or League of Arab States
- Transjordan, Kingdom of
- Syria, or Syrian Arab Republic
- Palestinians
- Arab Liberation Army
- Holy War, Army of the, or Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas)
- Israel
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